Recap: Silfverberg Breaks the Tie, Gibson Guides Ducks to 4-2 Win in D.C.

Jakob Silfverberg scored the game-winning goal to move up the Ducks record books and John Gibson made 41 saves, leading Anaheim to a 4-2 victory over the Washington Capitals tonight at Capital One Arena.
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With the comeback victory, Anaheim snapped a six-game winless skid and improved to 18-34-7 on the season. The Ducks now sit 1-1-1 heading to the finale of a four-game eastern road trip.
Cam Fowler was the lone skater on either side with a multi-point night, a two-assist performance to move within one point of 400 for his NHL career.
Silfverberg, Isac Lundestrom, Troy Terry and Derek Grant scored for the Ducks. Dmitry Kulikov, Max Comtois, Colton White and Kevin Shattenkirk added assists.

Gibson was once again terrific in net for Anaheim, stopping 41-of-43 Washington shots and earning his own place in NHL history.

Gibson's 21st save tonight was his 1,323rd of the year, the most by any NHL netminder through their first 40 games of a season since Jacques Plante (1,396) in 1963-64.
Nick Jensen and T.J. Oshie scored for the Caps, who lost their sixth-straight game and fell to 28-26-6 on the season. Charlie Lindgren made 17 saves.
Washington controlled much of the pace of play in the first period, but 11 saves from Gibson kept it a one-goal game after 20 minutes.
Oshie put Washington ahead first on the power-play, finding open space in the low slot and tipping Erik Gustafsson's point shot past Gibson.
The goal marked Oshie's 200th career power-play point, 44th among active NHLers and 10th among American-born players. It was also Oshie's first goal against the Ducks since Feb. 2017, part of his career-best 33 goal campaign.
Anaheim responded in the middle frame, tying the game twice in less than three minutes.
Lundestrom leveled the score at one on a breakaway, racing off the bench, taking a stretch pass from Fowler and beating Lindgren with a move to the backhand.

Fowler has seven points in his last five games (2-5=7), including three multi-point performances.
The Caps restored the lead just 1:58 later, with Jensen sneaking down from the right point and beating Gibson over the shoulder from in tight.
With the primary assist, Dowd now has 5-5=10 points in his last 14 games.
But once again Anaheim answered right back, this time with an absolute mad scramble in the Capitals crease that eventually ended with the puck in the back of the net. Terry took the first shot off the rush, finding the crossbar behind Lindgren. The rebound then sat free in the crease, with a total of seven players plus Lindgren entering the battle before referee Garrett Rank confirmed it over the line.

The goal was eventually awarded to Terry, with replay doing little to definitively determine how the puck actually crossed the line.
Terry skated 17:31 in his return from an upper-body injured that sidelined him for seven games, including three minutes of power-play action.
The two-time All-Star winger is second among team leaders in points this season (14-29=43) and fourth in goals.
With two assists on the night, Fowler sits just one point shy of becoming the first defenseman in team history, and sixth player overall, to record 400 points as a Duck.
Kulikov, whose role resembled a blocking full back helping get his quarterback over the line, grabbed the primary assist and now owns 1-4=5 points in his last five games.
The second period also included a pair of scraps, with more than a little intensity between two teams that only see each other twice a year. Simon Benoit first dropped the glove with Tom Wilson, the second straight year those two have fought, with Sam Carrick and Dylan McIlrath squaring off a few minutes later.
Gibson made his 21st save of the night, and established his place in NHL goaltending history, late in the middle frame with a glove stop on Jensen's point shot.
The 2-2 tie lasted until early in the third, when Silfverberg broke the deadlock. Following a faceoff in Anaheim's zone, defenseman Martin Fehevary tried to hold the puck in at the blue line, but had the puck hop his stick. That allowed Comtois to race ahead with Silfverberg on an odd-man rush, which the Swedish veteran tucked inside the far post to give the Ducks their first lead of the night.

With the goal, Silfverberg passed Bobby Ryan for seventh-most (148) in Ducks history. Silfverberg also ranks in the club's all-time top 10 in games played (667, fifth), assists (177, ninth), points (325, eighth), game-winning goals (17, tied-eighth) and shorthanded goals (10, third).
White collected the secondary assist with his clear off the boards that escaped to center ice, matching his career-best in points (0-4=4) and assists set last season.
Grant sealed Anaheim's comeback win with an empty-netter from distance. That would be more than enough hekp for Gibson, who stopped each of the Capitals' final 26 shots.

The Ducks conclude their four-game road trip Saturday at Carolina.